1They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
1南北兩國聯合攻打拉末（代下18:2~3）亞蘭人和以色列人之間，連續三年沒有戰爭。
2It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
2到了第三年，猶大王約沙法下去見以色列王。
3The king of Israel said to his servants, “You know that Ramoth Gilead is ours, and we are still, and don’t take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
3以色列王對他的臣僕說：“你們知道嗎？基列的拉末原屬於我們，我們怎可靜坐不動，不把它從亞蘭王的手中奪回來呢？”
4He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
4亞哈問約沙法：“你肯與我一起到基列的拉末去作戰嗎？”約沙法回答以色列王：“你我不分彼此，我的人民就像是你的人民，我的戰馬就像是你的戰馬。”
5Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.”
5以色列的假先知都預言戰勝（代下18:4~11）約沙法又對以色列王說：“現在請你先求問耶和華。”
6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
6於是以色列王把眾先知聚集了來，約有四百人，問他們：“我可以去攻打基列的拉末嗎？或是應當忍耐不去呢？”他們說：“你可以上去，主必把那城交在王的手裡。”
7But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
7約沙法說：“這裡不是還有耶和華的先知，我們可以求問他嗎？”
8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
8以色列王對約沙法說：“還有一個人，我們可以託他求問耶和華。不過我憎恨他，因為他對我說的預言，都是凶話，不是吉話。這人就是音拉的兒子米該雅。”但約沙法說：“請王不要這麼說。”
9Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, “Quickly get Micaiah the son of Imlah.”
9於是王召了一位太監來，說：“快去把音拉的兒子米該雅召來！”
10Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
10以色列王和猶大王約沙法穿著朝服，在撒瑪利亞城門口的廣場上，各人坐在自己的王位上；所有的先知都在他們面前說預言。
11Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’”
11基拿拿的兒子西底家做了些鐵角，說：“耶和華這樣說：‘你要用這些鐵角牴觸亞蘭人，直到把他們完全消滅。’”
12All the prophets prophesied so, saying, “Go up to Ramoth Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
12所有的先知也都這樣預言說：“你可以上基列的拉末去，必得勝利！因為耶和華必把那城交在王的手裡。”
13The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
13只有米該雅預言戰敗（代下18:12~22）那去召米該雅的使者對米該雅說：“看哪，這裡的眾先知都異口同聲地對王說吉話，請你與他們一樣說吉話。”
14Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
14米該雅說：“我指著永活的耶和華起誓，耶和華吩咐我甚麼，我就說甚麼。”
15When he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?” He answered him, “Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
15米該雅來到王那裡的時候，王就問他：“米該雅啊，我們可以到基列的拉末去作戰嗎？或是要忍耐不去呢？”米該雅回答亞哈：“你可以上去，必得勝利，因為耶和華必把那城交在王的手裡！”
16The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?”
16王對他說：“我要囑咐你多少次，你才奉耶和華的名對我只說真話呢？”
17He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’”
17米該雅說：“我看見以色列人四散在山上，好像沒有牧人的羊群一樣；耶和華說：‘這些人沒有主人，使他們平平安安各自回家吧！’”
18The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
18以色列王對約沙法說：“我不是告訴過你，這人對我說的預言，總不說吉話，只說凶話嗎？”
19Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
19米該雅說：“因此，你要聽耶和華的話；我看見耶和華坐在他的寶座上，天上的萬軍都侍立在他的左右。
20Yahweh said, ‘Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ One said one thing; and another said another.
20耶和華說：‘誰去引誘亞哈，使他上基列的拉末陣亡呢？’有說這樣的，有說那樣的。
21A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
21後來有一個靈出來，站在耶和華面前，說：‘我去引誘他。’耶和華問他：‘你用甚麼方法呢？’
22Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
22他回答：‘我要出去，在亞哈所有先知的口中，作說謊的靈。’耶和華說：‘你可以去引誘他，你也必能成功，你去這樣行吧！’
23Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”
23現在，耶和華已經把說謊的靈放在你這些先知的口中，耶和華已經命定災禍臨到你。”
24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh go from me to speak to you?”
24米該雅受辱被囚（代下18:23~27）基拿拿的兒子西底家近前來，打米該雅的臉頰說：“耶和華的靈怎樣離開了我，去與你說話呢？”
25Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself.”
25米該雅說：“你進密室躲藏的那一天，就必看見了。”
26The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.
26以色列王說：“把米該雅帶回去，交給市長亞們和王的兒子約阿施，
27Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”
27說：‘王這樣吩咐：把這人囚在監裡，少給他食物和水，直到我平平安安回來。’”
28Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”
28米該雅說：“如果你真的可以平平安安回來，那麼耶和華就沒有藉著我說話了。”他又說：“眾民啊，你們都要聽。”
29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth Gilead.
29亞哈陣亡（代下18:28~34）於是，以色列王和猶大王約沙法上基列的拉末去了。
30The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
30以色列王對約沙法說：“我要改裝上戰場去了；你可以仍穿自己的朝服。”於是以色列王改裝到戰場去了。
31Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.
31亞蘭王曾經囑咐他的三十二個戰車長說：“無論大小將兵，你們都不要與他們爭戰，只要與以色列王爭戰。”
32It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they turned aside to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.
32戰車長們看見約沙法的時候，就說：“這人必是以色列王。”他們就轉過去與他爭戰，約沙法便喊叫起來。
33It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
33戰車長們一見他不是以色列王，就轉回來，不追趕他了。
34A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded.”
34有一個人隨便射了一箭，竟射中了以色列王鐵甲與護胸甲之間的地方。王對駕車的說：“你把車轉過來，載我離開戰場吧！我受了重傷。”
35The battle increased that day. The king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
35那一天戰爭不斷升級，有人扶著王站在車上抵擋亞蘭人。到了黃昏，王就死了；血從傷口流到戰車的底下去。
36A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
36約在日落的時候，有命令傳遍軍中說：“各歸各城，各歸各地吧。”
37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
37王死了以後，人們把他送回撒瑪利亞，埋葬在那裡。
38They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
38他們在撒瑪利亞的池旁，妓女洗澡的地方清洗戰車，有狗來舔亞哈的血，正如耶和華說過的話一樣。
39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
39亞哈其餘的事蹟，他所作的一切，他建造的象牙宮和他重建的一切城鎮，不是都記在以色列諸王的年代誌上嗎？
40So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
40亞哈與他的列祖同睡，他的兒子亞哈謝接續他作王。
41Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
41約沙法作猶大王（代下17:1~6，20:31~21:1）以色列王亞哈第四年，亞撒的兒子約沙法登基作猶大王。
42Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
42約沙法登基的時候是三十五歲；他在耶路撒冷作王二十五年。他母親名叫阿蘇巴，是示利希的女兒。
43He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
43約沙法遵行他父親亞撒所行的一切，總不偏離，行耶和華看為正的事。只是邱壇還沒有廢去，人民仍在邱壇上獻祭燒香（“只是邱壇……獻祭燒香。”《馬索拉抄本》為22:44）。
44Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
44約沙法王與以色列王和平相處。（本節在《馬索拉抄本》為22:45）
45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
45約沙法其餘的事蹟，他作過的英勇的事和他怎樣爭戰的事，不是都寫在猶大列王的年代誌上嗎？
46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
46約沙法把父親亞撒在世時遺留下來的廟妓都從國中除滅。
47There was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
47那時，以東沒有王，由總督統治。
48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they didn’t go; for the ships were broken at Ezion Geber.
48約沙法建造了他施船隻，要到俄斐去運金子，可是不能開船，因為船隻在以旬．迦別壞了。
49Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat would not.
49那時亞哈的兒子亞哈謝對約沙法說：“讓我的僕人與你的僕人一同坐船去吧！”但是約沙法不肯。
50Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
50約沙法與他的列祖同睡，與他的列祖一同埋葬在他先祖大衛的城裡；他的兒子約蘭接續他作王。
51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
51亞哈謝作以色列王猶大王約沙法第十七年，亞哈的兒子亞哈謝在撒瑪利亞登基作以色列王。他作以色列王兩年。
52He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in which he made Israel to sin.
52他行耶和華看為惡的事，行他父親的道和他母親的道，又行尼八的兒子耶羅波安使以色列人陷在罪中的道。
53He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
53他事奉巴力，敬拜巴力，照著他父親所行的一切惹耶和華以色列的 神發怒。